. History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography. humand sugar cane, potatoes, apples, peaches, andplums, legumes, cowpeas, soy beans, red top,Bermuda and Johnson grass, alfalfa and to-bacco. Farm labor is cheap and principallynegroes. The forest growth of the county consistsof hickory, poplar, chestnut, red and whiteoak, beech, maple, red and white gum, wal-nut and cherry. Aboriginal History.—The territory em-braced in Limestone County, was at one timein the large domain on the Tennessee River,that was claimed by both the Chickasaws andCherokees. There is no record of any settle-ment
. History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography. humand sugar cane, potatoes, apples, peaches, andplums, legumes, cowpeas, soy beans, red top,Bermuda and Johnson grass, alfalfa and to-bacco. Farm labor is cheap and principallynegroes. The forest growth of the county consistsof hickory, poplar, chestnut, red and whiteoak, beech, maple, red and white gum, wal-nut and cherry. Aboriginal History.—The territory em-braced in Limestone County, was at one timein the large domain on the Tennessee River,that was claimed by both the Chickasaws andCherokees. There is no record of any settle-ment ever having been made, within its bor-ders by either nation. Both however madecession of it to the United States. It wasembraced in the Cherokee cession of Janu-ary 7, 1806. From this cession the Cherokeesreserved a tract which embraced that partof Limestone County west of Elk River. Thisland was given over to the United States bythe cession made in the treaty of July 8,1817. On September 20, 1816, the Chicka-saws, ceded to the United States, with the. JERE CLEMENSAnti-Secession leader HISTORY OF ALABAMA 8S3 exception of three reservations, all right ortitle to lands on the north side of the Ten-nessee River. John Craig, of Tennessee, made the firstattempt to settle in this county about three days above the big spring atAthens, and not liking the temper of theIndians he broke camp and returned to Ten-nessee. By a treaty with the Chickasaws July 23, 1805, a triangular tract of country in Ala-bama, north of the Tennessee River, wasacquired, which in 1808 was created intoMadison County. By the treaty of January 7, 1806, the Cherokees ceded to the UnitedStates, all their lands in Alabama, with theexception of two reserves, north of the Ten-nessee River, and west of the Chickasaw OldFields. This cession, of course, includedMadison County. The claim of the Chero-kees was not admitted by the Chickasaws,nor by the United States, which in spite ofthe Cherokee cession, con
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